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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






2. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






3. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






4. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






5. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






6. A four line stanza in a poem.






7. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






8. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






9. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






10. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






11. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






12. A three-line stanza.






13. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






14. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






15. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






16. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






17. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






18. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






19. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






20. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






21. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






22. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






23. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






24. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






25. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






26. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






27. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






28. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






29. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






30. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






31. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






32. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






33. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






34. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






35. A poem that tells a story.






36. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






37. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






38. The person who 'tells' the story.






39. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






40. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






41. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






42. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






43. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






44. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






45. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






46. What a story or play is about.






47. The dictionary meaning of a word.






48. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






49. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






50. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.